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Good morning, Nashville. If you were disheartened by the unfortunate news that our power bills could go up by 20% this fall, brace yourselves: Our water and sewer bills are going up too. A lot of the water mains, pipes and pumps need to be replaced, and we could see double-digit increases in our water [...]

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Congratulations to our own Hermitage Hotel for having the best bathrooms in the entire country. The honor comes complete with an “America’s Best Restroom” plaque and a spot in “America’s Best Restroom Hall Of Fame.” Must be the authentic terrazzo floors, leaded-glass tiles, art deco theme and classy shoeshine station (pictured above). Seriously. They were [...]

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Starting next spring, Jefferson Street will be getting a makeover using a new $800K grant awarded by the state to clean things up a bit. They’re hoping to draw in the tourists by planting some flowers, mowing the grass, painting a few murals, and putting up more directional signage. But flowers or not, they still [...]

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The Wilson County Fair had an impressive year, drawing a record-breaking crowd to last week’s festivities. Rumielf snagged this shot of one of the fair rides in motion last Saturday night.
Photo Of The Day will be a recurring feature for Nashvillest as long you keep giving us stuff to post. Don’t worry- We’ll give you [...]

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It’s that time of the month again, Geek Breakfast time! The Nashville Geek Breakfast has had such great success that they’ve started geekbreakfast.org, where other techy folk can yank the model to implement in their own communities. Show your support by joining the crew tomorrow morning at the midtown Noshville at 7:30am. 
Photo by lucamascaro. 

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Good morning, Nashville. Changes are in store for the Davidson County Sheriff’s Department after some deputies kept an undocumented immigrant woman in handcuffs while she went into labor and delivered her baby earlier this summer. Known for his tough stance on illegal immigration, Sheriff Daron Hall says they were just trying to do their job [...]

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Okay, for real this time–English First will not be on the ballot in November. As it were, the Davidson County Election Commission has proven that it’s capable of doing something other than losing our Social Security numbers and voted down the measure today 3-2. [WTVF]
A big computer glitch with the FAA delayed at least 15 [...]

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Hopefully you caught the sky yesterday around dusk as the storm clouds started to move around in front of the sunset. In case you didn’t, Chris Wage was out on the pedestrian bridge getting this impressive shot for everyone who missed it.
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Would you believe it if we told you that Tennessee ranks 100% last for alcohol consumption by binge drinkers? And that includes D.C. and the Virgin Islands! We also come in at 49th place for casual drinkers‘ alcohol consumption, and we’re #51 for heavy drinkers‘ alcohol consumption. We suppose that this is good news, but [...]

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Good morning, Nashville. For all the squabbling that happened when Metro schools adopted school uniforms, it sounds like they’ve actually helped make the schools safer. Major incidents of violence and assault were down significantly last year, though the number of smaller conflicts were way up in high schools. No one has proven that the uniforms [...]

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